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Event title:

Celebration of Mass to mark the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Prague Seminary Institute for Adult Blind

Venue: St Raphael's Chapel [Kaple svatého Rafaela]

Event type: Church music events

Date: 04/10/1857 10am

Keywords: Education - major institutions, Annual events and regular series, Ecclesiastical / Religious events, Festival and celebratory events, Genres - Church music, Public performance events, Charitable institutions, Disability in society

Benefactor: Seminary Institute for the Blind

Programme including:

HUMMEL, Jan Nepomuk : , MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus : , BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van : , TOMÁŠEK, Václav Jan Křtitel : unspecified piano works, pf
• Seminary Institute for the Blind:

UNSPECIFIED, ? : unspecified Mass, vv

UNIDENTIFIED, ? : unspecified Te deum, vv, [orch / org?]

Commentary:

Tagesbote aus Böhmen 1/10/1857 published news of forthcoming religious services to be given to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of the Prague Seminary Institute for Adult Blind in Bohemia, the ‘Versorgungs- ind Beschäftigungsanstalt für erwachsene Blinde in Böhmen.’ The source noted that there would be taking place in the Church of St Raphael of the Institute an ealy Mass at 8 o’clock, a German festival sermon at 9 o’clock, the celebratory High Mass and the Te Deum at 10 o’clock. In the afternoon at 3.30pm is the Czech festival sermon, then the litany with a Te Deum for the future prosperity of this Institute.’ No specific details were given concerning the musical content of these events.

Summary of sources:

Tagesbote aus Böhmen (01/10/1857)